From Topaz to Psycho: top 52 Hitchcock films

Not a hugely comfortable fit for the silent treatment, Noël Coward's play might have transferred better in the stagey confines of the early sound era. As it was, the focus on a woman with dirty secrets (Isabel Jeans) would come to seem characteristic, but Hitchcock was forced into using too many intertitles. He particularly came to hate one that appears after the heroine's courtroom disgrace, spoken to the mob of paparazzi gathered outside:"Shoot! There's nothing left to kill…"Picture: The Kobal Collection